Re: shell_exec seems to hang other web requests while running convert

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:18 AM, German Geek <geek.de@gmail.com> wrote: > We can live with the fact that it will take a little longer to process the > images. The image processing is only done by 2 people, about once a month, > just to save them time (they would do it with photoshop otherwise and it is > really boring and time consuming). oic > In fact, i might set up an automatic email when its finished. :-) nice > In the future it might become an issue when people can edit their own > ebooks. This project dates back to 1999, so a lot of it is legacy (a binary > page definition data format...). We're thinking of moving to swf pages > instead of images, as they currently are, that will reduce the time to be > taken to convert a pdf by thousands and would increase the quality and > reduce download times for end users, but it will take time to develop which > is not at hand atm. > > We have been thinking about scaling issues as well for quite some time > now... > It was hard enough to get them to move to Linux, since i work in a .NET > shop... > Setting up load balancing is not a trivial task though and expensive to > host. it'll take up another 1u, but we run the older alteon load balancers which can be had pretty cheaply from ebay, http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1313&_nkw=alteon&_sacat=See-All-Categories > I'm the main software developer on this project and am too busy adding > features and debugging ActionScript, C++ and PHP code to do that as well. good times. thanks for elaborating, sounds like things are well in hand. and a merry christmas to you too ;D -nathan